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Shakespeare’s Style

Shakespeare’s Style. Literary Devices. Oxymoron. A figure of speech in which two or more contrasting ideas are placed beside each other, often in parallel grammatical form The purpose is to emphasize the idea being contrasted

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Shakespeare’s Style

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  1. Shakespeare’s Style Literary Devices

  2. Oxymoron • A figure of speech in which two or more contrasting ideas are placed beside each other, often in parallel grammatical form • The purpose is to emphasize the idea being contrasted • Example: Viola says to Olivia, “Farewell, fair cruelty” (1.5.278)

  3. Pun • A figure of speech designed to create humour by playing on words with several meanings • Example: (1.1.16-24) • Curio: Will you go hunt, my lord? • Duke: What, Curio? • Curio: The hart. • Duke: Why, so I do, the noblest that I have. [Olivia’s heart]…

  4. Allusion • A reference to a historical, literary, religious, mythologyical figure, event or object • The reader immediately makes the connection • Example: The Captain says to Viola, “Like Arion on the dolphin’s back,/ I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves/ So long as I could see” (1.2.15-16) • Example: Feste says to Maria, “Thou wert as witty a piece of Eve’s flesh as any in Illyria” (1.5.36-37)

  5. Figurative Comparison • Metaphor: A short comparison between two unlike things • Example: Viola says she would “call upon my soul within the house” • “my soul” is a metaphor for Olivia • Simile: a comparison made between two things, using “like” or “as” • Malvolio says to Olivia [about Cesario], “he’ll stand at your door like a sheriff’s post” (1.5.142-3) • Personification: inanimate objects are given human qualities • Duke says “And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, E’er since pursue me” (1.1.22-23)

  6. Irony Verbal Irony: saying one thing but meaning another Dramatic Irony: the audience is aware of the meaning of a character’s lines or actions, but other characters onstage are “blind” to such knowledge (the audience is in on a secret that characters onstage are not) Example: Duke Orsino says to Viola, “Diana’s lip/ Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe/ Is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound;/ All is semblative a woman’s part” (1.4.31-34)

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